since 2007, and this semester is the first time that I’ve actually had a full week on Twitter (well, microblogging and lifestreaming to be specific). Before, I treated it sort of as an afterthought, including some information on Twitter during the two weeks that I covered blogging. I’ve been teaching a class on Web 2.0

So let’s start with Prediction #1: Twitter will become a media company, and the only “free radical of scale” in our Internet ecosystem. . We’ve seen this movie over and over again, with Google and Facebook the most notable “new media companies” of the past decade (and Microsoft the most reluctant).
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Facebook’s not just for keeping tabs on friends and filling out quizzes — it can also be used as a highly effective business tool. Here are 32 ways to use Facebook in your business. Stay out of trouble by reading the Facebook rules regarding business accounts. Buy Facebook ads to target your exact audience.
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'The post To Win The Newsfeed, Facebook Should Put Its Users In Control appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. It boils down to this: Facebook’s newsfeed should be what I tell it to be, not what Facebook – or anyone else – tells me it should be. Is it all of these things? Can it be? ”).
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The headlines about Facebook’s IPO – along with questions about its business model – are now officially cringeworthy. Prior to Facebook’s IPO, I drafted a post about its core business model (targeted display advertising), but decided not to publish it. Is the worst of it over for Facebook’s IPO?
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My Twitter Page. On Twitter , for example, I personally don’t follow every single person who follows me. do go to each Twitter page for every person who does follow me and peruse a few pages of their tweets. That said, there is the theory that if you don’t follow someone back on Twitter, it is an insult.
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